Mr Steven P. Walker
LLB (Hons) Dip LP ACIArb
Honorary Fellow (Edin) Accredited Mediator Advocate (Scotland) Barrister (England & Wales) Attorney-at-Law (Cayman Islands)
Honorary Lecturer
Steven P Walker is an Advocate & member of Terra Firma Chambers, Edinburgh and a Barrister & member of Tanfield Chambers, London. Steven called to the Scottish Bar in 1999, to the Cayman Islands Bar in 2007 and to the English Bar in 2008. He has been an accredited Mediator since 2003.
Steven is a contentious commercial lawyer who practises Scots, English and International Law. His practice deals with all forms of commercial dispute, and he has a particular interest in Natural Resources, oil/gas/mining as well as energy and construction and engineering related disputes. He has regularly appeared before numerous arbitral tribunals in the UK and abroad.
Early in his career, he spent a sabbatical year working in the international arbitration group of Allen & Overy. He was involved in raising the first ICSID arbitration proceedings under the Energy Charter Treaty. Since then, he has extensive practice and experience in ICC, LCIA, and ICSID arbitrations as well as numerous other institutional and ad hoc arbitrations in the UK and worldwide.
He is a lecturer on international arbitration and member of the global academic faculty of the Centre for Energy, Petroleum, Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee. He was coach to the award winning CEPMLP Mediation Team who won an award at the 6th ICC Mediation Competition in Paris in 2011.
He is a recognised expert in International Arbitration by the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID) and was instructed by them to advise the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan on their national arbitration law. He was also instructed by the United Kingdom Government to act as Counsel for the United Kingdom in International Treaty negotiations before the United Nations, Vienna, Austria.
He was appointed an ad hoc Advocate Depute in 2007 (Crown Counsel) by the Lord Advocate (Head of the Scottish Prosecution Service) and has prosecuted serious offences for the Crown including attempted murder and armed robbery etc. Steven also holds a public appointment from the Scottish Government and sits as a Tribunal Chairman of the PRHP.